This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, [...]

I’m amazed and honored to see a poem I wrote included in this collection of Canadian tanka. There is even a translation into French (not by me) — a first for me. one petal from the princess tree clings to the windshield— I drive away looking in the mirror un pétale de l’arbre impérial s’accroche [...]

From 1925: The pens and tongues of contumely were arrested. Mocking mouths were shut. Even righteous protestation hushed its clamor, as when, having striven manfully in single combat, a high-helmed champion is stricken by Jove’s bolt and the two snarling armies stand at sudden gaze, astonished and bereft a moment of their rancor. That was [...]

Does it blend? Yes, but first you need to smash the screen and bend the thing in half so it will fit into the blender.

Minscul Mini, originally uploaded by dtweney. Neatly sidestepping any debates about spelling.

Happiest People Ever!

Google Maps Typography, by Rhett Dashwood.

Former Gawker editor and Awl founder Choire Sicha: “If I were going to be buying things now, I would be buying media properties. You get a lot of bang for your buck. People are making good, stable money, recession or no. Now is the time that people should be trying things and having fun.” Choire [...]

I love the high, faux-literary tone of this spam message I received today. Its content is essentially the same as many Nigerian wire fraud scams … but the language is awfully high-flown. Where do they come up with this stuff? From: Lady Catherine Levett, 4 Old Church Street, Chelsea, SW3, England. Here writes Lady Catherine [...]